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Here's my tip for Aussie medals. I have split them into 2 groups Gold/Silver and Bronze/4th/5th. I have put those who are most likely to get that type of result in the relevant grouping.

There are some Aussie athletes who will probably win silver, but if the favourite stuffs up, the Aussie could pinch gold eg new HJ WR holder Yaroslava Mahuchikh should win gold and Aussie Nicola Olyslagers win silver, but if Mahuchikh has a bad day then Olyslagers could pinch it.

Same happens the other way with an Aussie favourite to win gold but ends up with silver.

Tokyo was rare that Australia won more than double the amount of gold to silver medals, usually its around the same or about 1/3rd more silvers than gold.

Since WWII Helsinki 6/2, Melbourne 13/8, Rome 6/2 and Tokyo 17/7 are the 4 examples where a lot more golds were won than silvers. Gracenote is saying 13 golds and 22 silvers in the last report I saw.

And every Olympics since 1976, Oz has won more bronzes than gold, except Athens in 2004 when it was 17G 16S 17B. Gracenote is going with 13 bronzes. Remember this is just my guess trying to work out how Gracenote got their 13/22/13 = 48 Oz total.

2 eazy I think this is what you asked for in the other thread. I have posted about many of these chances in this thread previously.

Gold / Silver chances

3 Athletics Women's High Jump Nicola Olyslagers, W Pole Vault Nina Kennedy, W 20km Walk Jemma Montag

3 Canoeing slalom Women's C-1 Jess Fox, W K-1 Jess Fox, W Kayak Cross - Jess Fox
1 Canoeing sprint Men's K-2 500m Tom Green and Jean van der Westhuyzen

2 Cycling track Men's Team Sprint, Men's Kerin Matthew Richardson
1 Cycling BMX freestyle Men's Logan Martin
1 Cycling BMX racing Women's Saba Sakakibara

1 Diving Men's 10m Platform Cassiel Rousseau
1 Hockey.... Men's Kookaburras
2 Rowing Women's Coxless Pairs Jessica Morrison & Annebelle McIntyre, Men's Eights
1 Rugby Sevens Women's team

2 Sailing Men's Laser/ILCA 7 Matthew Wearn, Women's 49er FX Olivia Price + Evie Haseldine
2 Shooting Men's Trap James Willet, Women's Trap Penny Smith
1 Skateboarding Men's Keegan Palmer
1 Surfing Women's Molly Picklum

16 Swimming
Men's
50m Free McEvoy, 400m Free Sam Short, 800m Free Winnington, 200m Breastroke Stublety-Cook
Women's
50m Free Jack, 100m Free O'Callaghan, 200m MOC, Titmus, 400m Titmus, 800m Titmus
100m Back Kaylee McKeown, 200m Back McKeown, 200m IM Mckeown
4x100m Free, 4x200m Free 4x100m Medley

Bronze / 4th / 5th

Athletics
10 Men's Discuss Matt Denny, M Long Jump Christopher Mitrevski, Pole Vault Kurtis Marschall, M 1500m Ollie Hoare,
M Decathlon Ash Moloney, High Jump Yuri Reath
Women's 1500m Jessica Hull, W High Jump Eleanor Pattinson, Javelin McKenzie Little
Mixed Marathon Race Walking Relay

2 Basketball Men's Boomers, Women's Opals
1 Boxing Harry Garside
1 Cycling Men's Team Pursuit
1 Diving Women's Synchronised 3m springboard
1 Equestrian Eventing team

1 Football Women's Matildas
1 Golf Women's Mingee Lee
1 Hockey Women's Hockeyroos
1 Rowing Women's Eights
1 Rugby Sevens Men's team

1 Sailing Mixed 470
1 Skateboarding Arisa Trew
1 Tennis Men's doubles Peers and Ebden
1 Beach Volleyball Women's Mariafe del Solar and Taliqua Clancy
1 Water Polo Women's team Stingers

9 Swimming
Men's 100m Free Kyle Chalmers, 400m Elijah Winnington, 800m Sam Short, 4x100m Free
W 100m Shayna Jack, 800m Lani Pallister, 1500m Pallister, 200m Fly Elizabeth Dekkers
4x100m Mixed Medley relay

Edit in Tokyo 6 x 4ths, 20 x 5ths and 8 x 6ths to go with 17G 7S 22B.

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RussellEbertHandball said:
Here's my tip for Aussie medals. I have split them into 2 groups Gold/Silver and Bronze/4th/5th. I have put those who are most likely to get that type of result in the relevant grouping.

There are some Aussie athletes who will probably win silver, but if the favourite stuffs up, the Aussie could pinch gold eg new HJ WR holder Yaroslava Mahuchikh should win gold and Aussie Nicola Olyslagers win silver, but if Mahuchikh has a bad day then Olyslagers could pinch it.

Same happens the other way with an Aussie favourite to win gold but ends up with silver.

Tokyo was rare that Australia won more than double the amount of gold to silver medals, usually its around the same or about 1/3rd more silvers than gold.

Since WWII Helsinki 6/2, Melbourne 13/8, Rome 6/2 and Tokyo 17/7 are the 4 examples where a lot more golds were won than silvers. Gracenote is saying 13 golds and 22 silvers in the last report I saw.

And every Olympics since 1976, Oz has won more bronzes than gold, except Athens in 2004 when it was 17G 16S 17B. Gracenote is going with 13 bronzes. Remember this is just my guess trying to work out how Gracenote got their 13/22/13 = 48 Oz total.

2 eazy I think this is what you asked for in the other thread. I have posted about many of these chances in this thread previously.

Gold / Silver chances

3 Athletics Women's High Jump Nicola Olyslagers, W Pole Vault Nina Kennedy, W 20km Walk Jemma Montag

3 Canoeing slalom Women's C-1 Jess Fox, W K-1 Jess Fox, W Kayak Cross - Jess Fox
1 Canoeing sprint Men's K-2 500m Tom Green and Jean van der Westhuyzen

2 Cycling track Men's Team Sprint, Men's Kerin Matthew Richardson
1 Cycling BMX freestyle Men's Logan Martin
1 Cycling BMX racing Women's Saba Sakakibara

1 Diving Men's 10m Platform Cassiel Rousseau
1 Hockey.... Men's Kookaburras
2 Rowing Women's Coxless Pairs Jessica Morrison & Annebelle McIntyre, Men's Eights
1 Rugby Sevens Women's team

2 Sailing Men's Laser/ILCA 7 Matthew Wearn, Women's 49er FX Olivia Price + Evie Haseldine
2 Shooting Men's Trap James Willet, Women's Trap Penny Smith
1 Skateboarding Men's Keegan Palmer
1 Surfing Women's Molly Picklum

16 Swimming
Men's
50m Free McEvoy, 400m Free Sam Short, 800m Free Winnington, 200m Breastroke Stublety-Cook
Women's
50m Free Jack, 100m Free O'Callaghan, 200m MOC, Titmus, 400m Titmus, 800m Titmus
100m Back Kaylee McKeown, 200m Back McKeown, 200m IM Mckeown
4x100m Free, 4x200m Free 4x100m Medley

Bronze / 4th / 5th

Athletics
9 Men's Discuss Matt Denny, M Long Jump Christopher Mitrevski, Pole Vault Kurtis Marschall, M 1500m Ollie Hoare,
M Decathlon Ash Moloney, High Jump Yuri Reath
Women's 1500m Jessica Hull, W High Jump Eleanor Pattinson, Javelin McKenzie Little
Mixed Marathon Race Walking Relay

2 Basketball Men's Boomers, Women's Opals
1 Boxing Harry Garside
1 Cycling Men's Team Pursuit
1 Diving Women's Synchronised 3m springboard
1 Equestrian Eventing team

1 Football Women's Matildas
1 Golf Women's Mingee Lee
1 Hockey Women's Hockeyroos
1 Rowing Women's Eights
1 Rugby Sevens Men's team

1 Sailing Mixed 470
1 Skateboarding Arisa Trew
1 Tennis Men's doubles Peers and Ebden
1 Beach Volleyball Women's Mariafe del Solar and Taliqua Clancy
1 Water Polo Women's team Stingers

9 Swimming
Men's 100m Free Kyle Chalmers, 400m Elijah Winnington, 800m Sam Short, 4x100m Free
W 100m Shayna Jack, 800m Lani Pallister, 1500m Pallister, 200m Fly Elizabeth Dekkers
4x100m Mixed Medley relay
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Good list. I would add mixed doubles in tennis as a possible 1-2 as Perez and Ebden are the best national combination per likely nations who will compete. As only a 16 team comp and won’t be finalised until the Tuesday iirc. Good chance of a 1st or 2nd in the break dancing, particularly the men’s.
 
Looks as though Demon might be out of the olympics due to a significant hip injury sustained on Monday 😢

Edit fibro cartilage injury near the abductor 3-6 week recovery at best. Not sure if he can be replaced. Problem is with it being on clay is lots chosen to miss it due to the hard court swing starting next week. If we could replace him Vukic would be a reasonable replacement.
 
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RussellEbertHandball said:
Here's my tip for Aussie medals. I have split them into 2 groups Gold/Silver and Bronze/4th/5th. I have put those who are most likely to get that type of result in the relevant grouping.

There are some Aussie athletes who will probably win silver, but if the favourite stuffs up, the Aussie could pinch gold eg new HJ WR holder Yaroslava Mahuchikh should win gold and Aussie Nicola Olyslagers win silver, but if Mahuchikh has a bad day then Olyslagers could pinch it.

Same happens the other way with an Aussie favourite to win gold but ends up with silver.

Tokyo was rare that Australia won more than double the amount of gold to silver medals, usually its around the same or about 1/3rd more silvers than gold.

Since WWII Helsinki 6/2, Melbourne 13/8, Rome 6/2 and Tokyo 17/7 are the 4 examples where a lot more golds were won than silvers. Gracenote is saying 13 golds and 22 silvers in the last report I saw.

And every Olympics since 1976, Oz has won more bronzes than gold, except Athens in 2004 when it was 17G 16S 17B. Gracenote is going with 13 bronzes. Remember this is just my guess trying to work out how Gracenote got their 13/22/13 = 48 Oz total.

2 eazy I think this is what you asked for in the other thread. I have posted about many of these chances in this thread previously.

Gold / Silver chances

3 Athletics Women's High Jump Nicola Olyslagers, W Pole Vault Nina Kennedy, W 20km Walk Jemma Montag

3 Canoeing slalom Women's C-1 Jess Fox, W K-1 Jess Fox, W Kayak Cross - Jess Fox
1 Canoeing sprint Men's K-2 500m Tom Green and Jean van der Westhuyzen

2 Cycling track Men's Team Sprint, Men's Kerin Matthew Richardson
1 Cycling BMX freestyle Men's Logan Martin
1 Cycling BMX racing Women's Saba Sakakibara

1 Diving Men's 10m Platform Cassiel Rousseau
1 Hockey.... Men's Kookaburras
2 Rowing Women's Coxless Pairs Jessica Morrison & Annebelle McIntyre, Men's Eights
1 Rugby Sevens Women's team

2 Sailing Men's Laser/ILCA 7 Matthew Wearn, Women's 49er FX Olivia Price + Evie Haseldine
2 Shooting Men's Trap James Willet, Women's Trap Penny Smith
1 Skateboarding Men's Keegan Palmer
1 Surfing Women's Molly Picklum

16 Swimming
Men's
50m Free McEvoy, 400m Free Sam Short, 800m Free Winnington, 200m Breastroke Stublety-Cook
Women's
50m Free Jack, 100m Free O'Callaghan, 200m MOC, Titmus, 400m Titmus, 800m Titmus
100m Back Kaylee McKeown, 200m Back McKeown, 200m IM Mckeown
4x100m Free, 4x200m Free 4x100m Medley

Bronze / 4th / 5th

Athletics
9 Men's Discuss Matt Denny, M Long Jump Christopher Mitrevski, Pole Vault Kurtis Marschall, M 1500m Ollie Hoare,
M Decathlon Ash Moloney, High Jump Yuri Reath
Women's 1500m Jessica Hull, W High Jump Eleanor Pattinson, Javelin McKenzie Little
Mixed Marathon Race Walking Relay

2 Basketball Men's Boomers, Women's Opals
1 Boxing Harry Garside
1 Cycling Men's Team Pursuit
1 Diving Women's Synchronised 3m springboard
1 Equestrian Eventing team

1 Football Women's Matildas
1 Golf Women's Mingee Lee
1 Hockey Women's Hockeyroos
1 Rowing Women's Eights
1 Rugby Sevens Men's team

1 Sailing Mixed 470
1 Skateboarding Arisa Trew
1 Tennis Men's doubles Peers and Ebden
1 Beach Volleyball Women's Mariafe del Solar and Taliqua Clancy
1 Water Polo Women's team Stingers

9 Swimming
Men's 100m Free Kyle Chalmers, 400m Elijah Winnington, 800m Sam Short, 4x100m Free
W 100m Shayna Jack, 800m Lani Pallister, 1500m Pallister, 200m Fly Elizabeth Dekkers
4x100m Mixed Medley relay

Edit in Tokyo 6 x 4ths, 20 x 5ths and 8 x 6ths to go with 17G 7S 22B.
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Boomers no chance at medalling. 4x200m free relay for woman ane 200 free individual are locks for gold. Jack is no chance at gold in 50 free Sarah Sjostrom is way ahead
 
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Boomers no chance at medalling. 4x200m free relay for woman ane 200 free individual are locks for gold. Jack is no chance at gold in 50 free Sarah Sjostrom is way ahead
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Maybe so but I think there has been an over reaction that we won't even get out of the group.

Just because Greece have one of the best players in the world doesn't mean they are automatically going to flog us.
 
RussellEbertHandball said:
Here's my tip for Aussie medals. I have split them into 2 groups Gold/Silver and Bronze/4th/5th. I have put those who are most likely to get that type of result in the relevant grouping.
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In your opinion, out of all the events what is the safest/best bet for Australia to get a gold in?
 
RussellEbertHandball said:
Here's my tip for Aussie medals. I have split them into 2 groups Gold/Silver and Bronze/4th/5th. I have put those who are most likely to get that type of result in the relevant grouping.

There are some Aussie athletes who will probably win silver, but if the favourite stuffs up, the Aussie could pinch gold eg new HJ WR holder Yaroslava Mahuchikh should win gold and Aussie Nicola Olyslagers win silver, but if Mahuchikh has a bad day then Olyslagers could pinch it.

Same happens the other way with an Aussie favourite to win gold but ends up with silver.

Tokyo was rare that Australia won more than double the amount of gold to silver medals, usually its around the same or about 1/3rd more silvers than gold.

Since WWII Helsinki 6/2, Melbourne 13/8, Rome 6/2 and Tokyo 17/7 are the 4 examples where a lot more golds were won than silvers. Gracenote is saying 13 golds and 22 silvers in the last report I saw.

And every Olympics since 1976, Oz has won more bronzes than gold, except Athens in 2004 when it was 17G 16S 17B. Gracenote is going with 13 bronzes. Remember this is just my guess trying to work out how Gracenote got their 13/22/13 = 48 Oz total.

2 eazy I think this is what you asked for in the other thread. I have posted about many of these chances in this thread previously.

Gold / Silver chances

3 Athletics Women's High Jump Nicola Olyslagers, W Pole Vault Nina Kennedy, W 20km Walk Jemma Montag

3 Canoeing slalom Women's C-1 Jess Fox, W K-1 Jess Fox, W Kayak Cross - Jess Fox
1 Canoeing sprint Men's K-2 500m Tom Green and Jean van der Westhuyzen

2 Cycling track Men's Team Sprint, Men's Kerin Matthew Richardson
1 Cycling BMX freestyle Men's Logan Martin
1 Cycling BMX racing Women's Saba Sakakibara

1 Diving Men's 10m Platform Cassiel Rousseau
1 Hockey.... Men's Kookaburras
2 Rowing Women's Coxless Pairs Jessica Morrison & Annebelle McIntyre, Men's Eights
1 Rugby Sevens Women's team

2 Sailing Men's Laser/ILCA 7 Matthew Wearn, Women's 49er FX Olivia Price + Evie Haseldine
2 Shooting Men's Trap James Willet, Women's Trap Penny Smith
1 Skateboarding Men's Keegan Palmer
1 Surfing Women's Molly Picklum

16 Swimming
Men's
50m Free McEvoy, 400m Free Sam Short, 800m Free Winnington, 200m Breastroke Stublety-Cook
Women's
50m Free Jack, 100m Free O'Callaghan, 200m MOC, Titmus, 400m Titmus, 800m Titmus
100m Back Kaylee McKeown, 200m Back McKeown, 200m IM Mckeown
4x100m Free, 4x200m Free 4x100m Medley

Bronze / 4th / 5th

Athletics
10 Men's Discuss Matt Denny, M Long Jump Christopher Mitrevski, Pole Vault Kurtis Marschall, M 1500m Ollie Hoare,
M Decathlon Ash Moloney, High Jump Yuri Reath
Women's 1500m Jessica Hull, W High Jump Eleanor Pattinson, Javelin McKenzie Little
Mixed Marathon Race Walking Relay

2 Basketball Men's Boomers, Women's Opals
1 Boxing Harry Garside
1 Cycling Men's Team Pursuit
1 Diving Women's Synchronised 3m springboard
1 Equestrian Eventing team

1 Football Women's Matildas
1 Golf Women's Mingee Lee
1 Hockey Women's Hockeyroos
1 Rowing Women's Eights
1 Rugby Sevens Men's team

1 Sailing Mixed 470
1 Skateboarding Arisa Trew
1 Tennis Men's doubles Peers and Ebden
1 Beach Volleyball Women's Mariafe del Solar and Taliqua Clancy
1 Water Polo Women's team Stingers

9 Swimming
Men's 100m Free Kyle Chalmers, 400m Elijah Winnington, 800m Sam Short, 4x100m Free
W 100m Shayna Jack, 800m Lani Pallister, 1500m Pallister, 200m Fly Elizabeth Dekkers
4x100m Mixed Medley relay

Edit in Tokyo 6 x 4ths, 20 x 5ths and 8 x 6ths to go with 17G 7S 22B.
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I have been doing a bit more reading and the mixed medley triathlon is a strong medal chance for Australia. Same team competing in Paris won a silver in 2022 world championships. Last triathlon event prior to the games tonight our time.
 
revo333 said:
In your opinion, out of all the events what is the safest/best bet for Australia to get a gold in?
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Women's 200m Free, MOC and Titmus will go 1, 2 in it.

The 4x200m on paper is a better bet but there is always a chance to stuff up a change over in relays and get a DQ so thats why I rank it #2 event.
 
Jessica Hull broke wr in 2000 metres. Unlucky it's not an Olympic event.
She dropped 5 seconds in just over a month in 1500m which is ridiculous
 

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I talked about the Rowing Men's Eight's being a good chance to finally win a gold medal. If they do, I hope they give a nod to the Murray Cods who went to Paris as the Eights team in 1924.

The Murray Cods were a team of boys from the bush, from Murray Bridge who won the national championships and equivalent of the now King's Cup in 1920, 1922 and 1923, beating the fancied elite teams from the cities of Oz made up of private school types and professionals who worked in offices. They were also sometimes called the Raggedy Eight.

I was told about the fabulous story of the Murray Cods - Paris or the Bush - when I was at uni from a mate who did rowing at uni. Sort of forget about them until every time the Olympics comes on and I watch the Eights.

This was on 7 News in Adelaide a few weeks ago.

They were a few seconds off the world record, but because they set up their training camp 26 miles from the competition site they rowed to the site, The Seine River even back then was very dodgy, they had to get into the river and lift their boat over locks and other barricades, they got dysentery, got sick, lost their strength and were shot come competition time and didn't make the final.

From 7's facebook post to go with the video - This year's Olympic Games will hold a special place in the hearts of rowers from one of the nation's most famous clubs. It will be a hundred years since the legendary Murray Cods put Murray Bridge on the sporting map with their heroic feats in the 1924 Paris Olympics.




In the video it talks about the documentary writer/producer Wayne Groom produced in 2016. Here he talks to Paul Kennedy on ABC News Breakfast on the eve of the launch of the film and explains their background even more with class, race and WWI playing a part in holding their progress after winning the national title in 1913, just 4 years after they were set up. The war intervened and they lost half their crew to death or war injuries and had to rebuild the crew.

As Groom explains what they achieved post WWI, was like a small country town football club winning 3 AFL premierships in 4 years.

How did a Cinderella rowing crew, with no hope of competing, make the 1924 Paris Olympics? Writer and director of documentary 'Paris or the Bush', Wayne Groom sheds light on this amazing story.






This is a 33 minute ABC podcast explaining more of the story.

www.abc.net.au

The Cods - ABC listen

How a bunch of manual workers from country South Australia battled their way to the Paris Olympics of 1924.
www.abc.net.au www.abc.net.au

Earlier this year they were inducted into the SA Sport Hall of Fame.

www.indaily.com.au

The 'raggedy' small-town rowers who took on the world - InDaily

www.indaily.com.au www.indaily.com.au
 
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There’s an Aussie showdown in the men’s mile at the London DL this weekend.
Hoare, Spencer, McSweyn and Myers battle it out.
The field is missing some top end talent but it’s still extremely strong and hopefully it’ll be fast.

Cat Bisset is in the 800m too.
 
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Aussies the toast of the village

The Australia Olympic Team “cannot be missed” in the Athletes’ Village with Chef de Mission Anna Meares claiming their new home to be one of the most patri...
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The Australia Olympic Team “cannot be missed” in the Athletes’ Village with Chef de Mission Anna Meares claiming their new home to be one of the most patriotic and picturesque of all nations. Fronting the media for the first time since arriving in Paris, the four-time Olympic cyclist has applauded the work of team operations for the exceptional environment provided for the athletes.

The Australian Team will take up residence in the purpose-built Athletes’ Village, 7km north from the centre of Paris, throughout the Games.

The windows of the lower floors sport images of some of our nation’s most notorious landscapes including Uluru and the Great Barrier Reef, while banners reading: Australia, Merci Paris and Allez Aus, don the upper balconies. “I'm not biased but I think the Australian allotment is the prettiest building and most decorated building of all of them within the village,” Anna said.
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More history than what might happen in Paris, but sports historian and sports researcher at AIS/ASC for over 30 years Greg Blood on his website where he and other write regular sports articles 3 weeks ago wrote about the different Aussie Olympic and Paralympic sports teams and how they have gone between 1908-2020.

Review of Australian Team Sports at the Olympics and Paralympics 1908-2020 - Australian Sport Reflections

By Greg Blood The 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games will be another test of the strength of Australia's Olympic and Paralympic team sports. Since 2012, there has been a decline in the medals won by Australian Olympic and Paralympic teams sports. From 1996 to 2012, team sports won more than one...
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Table 1 – Olympic Sport Medals by Sport

Sport1st
Year
at
Games		No of
Games		1st2nd3rdBest
Result
Baseball – Men19963–1–2nd
2004
Basketball – Women198410–322nd
2000
2004, 2008
Basketball – Men195613––13rd
2020
Football – Women20044–––4th
2020
Football – Men19568–––4th
1992
Handball – Women20001–––12th
Handball – Men20001–––12th
Hockey – Women1984103––1st
1988
1996
2000
Hockey – Men1956161451st
2004
Rugby 7’s – Women201621––1st
2016
Rugby 7’s – Men20162–––7th
2020
Rugby Union190811––1st
1908 *
Softball – Women19965–132nd
2004
Water Polo – Women200061–21st
2000
Water Polo – Men194816–––5th
1984
1992
Volleyball – Women20001–––10th
2000
Volleyball – Men20003–––8th
2000
Sports Medals by Sport
(*) Australasian team (Australian and New Zealand players)

Table 2 – Sports Medals by Olympic Games

1 = Gold, 2 = Silver, 3 = Bronze

Sport – Games19
08		64687688929620
00		0408121620
Baseball – Men2
Basketball – Women32223
Basketball – Men3
Hockey – Women111
Hockey – Men3222331332
Rugby 7’s – Women1
Rugby Union
1
Softball – Women3323
Water Polo – Women122
Gold1000101210010
Silver0011010131001
Bronze0100003203301
Total Medals1111114544312
No Athletes with Team Medals15151515171659706656411230

Kookaburras have won most medals, the Opals have been the most consistent since 1996 and the Shark's the men's water polo team have been going to the Olympics since 1948, and didn't go in 1968 and 1996.


The number of team medals won is something I have been watching since Atlanta when for the first time ever more than 1 team won an Olympic medal.

In Sydney the 5 teams won medals which meant all up, 161 of the 617 Aussie team took home a medal. At 26.1% it would be the biggest % of the team that took a medal home post WWI. Pre WWI there were very few athletes who attended, so the % was high.

I talked about the team aspects of medals and maybe an adjusted medals total should be produced counting how many medals are handed out in an event not just 1 for winning the event with as many as 24 players in a baseball team/squad.

For example in the 18 team sports event in Tokyo;
USA won 5G 2S 1B but there were 53G 39S 22B handed out to 114 individuals in USA teams
France won 3G 2S 1B but there were 44G 24S 12B handed out to 80 individual in the French teams
Oz won 1S in men's hockey and 1B in men's basketball so 18S and 12B = 30 individuals came home with medals.

I never fully reconciled it, but I got to the 230 of the 615 USA athletes who attended Tokyo 3 years ago took home a medal.
 
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The last major comp for our Paris Olympians - London Diamond League - is available to stream for free from about 11 (AEST) tomorrow night.

Featuring two of our top Paris medal chances - Nina Kennedy & Dr Mackenzie Little.

With a mouth-watering Mile where Oli Hoare, Adam Spencer, Stew McSweyn & Cam Myers will all be racing.

Plus both our Men's & Women's 4x100m squads vs strong opposition.

And other Olympic final hopes - Trina Bisset & Yuai Reath too.

www.youtube.com

Wanda Diamond League

The official YouTube channel of the Wanda Diamond League - the major global series of athletics meetings. The Wanda Diamond League encompasses 32 Diamond Disciplines, following a championship style model. Athletes earn points at the qualification meetings to qualify for the final of their...
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And for anyone awake about 7am in the morning our Aussie hurdler Allana Yukich is competing - along with a bunch of US stars - in this meet in Florida:

 
The last major comp for many of our athletes tonight in London.

MILE McSweyn Hoare Spencer Myers (Davies pace)
3000 Thomas
4x100 Sultana Despard Law Azzopardi
HJ Reath

800 Bissett
PV Kennedy
JAV Little
4x100 Connolly Masters Edwards Lewis

BBC broadcast starts at 10.15 (AEST) tonight but I think the YT stream is not until 11:

www.youtube.com

Wanda Diamond League

The official YouTube channel of the Wanda Diamond League - the major global series of athletics meetings. The Wanda Diamond League encompasses 32 Diamond Disciplines, following a championship style model. Athletes earn points at the qualification meetings to qualify for the final of their...
www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
 

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